President Donald Trump revealed on Monday he'll push for a new round of tax cuts - this time a 10 percent cut for the middle class that he will pitch for a vote in Congress after the midterm election.

'This isn't for business; this is for middle,' Trump told reporters at the White House before he left on a campaign trip to Houston.

But his new plan, which he first mentioned at a campaign rally on Saturday, has been greeted with skepticism - mainly because Congress isn't in session to discuss it and it could be difficult to pass a tax cut after voters head to the polls if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives.

In fact, Trump back stepped his original idea - a tax cut to be voted on before November given that lawmakers don't return to Washington D.C. for work until mid-November.

President Donald Trump revealed on Monday he'll push for a new round of tax cuts - after the midterm election

Trump's announcement is likely designed to rally GOP voters ahead of the election

He is now saying a vote will happen when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill for business after the midterms.

And he brushed aside details of how and why he could get a new plan passed.

'We're putting in a resolution some time in the next week or week and a half, two weeks. We're giving a middle income tax reduction of about 10 percent,' he said on Monday.

'We won't have time to do the vote; we'll do the vote later. We'll do the vote after the election,' he added.

Even though a vote may come after the election, the president's comments were likely designed to rally his base ahead of November's midterm.

His move comes as more and more analysts are predicting Democrats will retake control of the House of Representatives.

Trump originally suggested this weekend he would push for another tax cut - a move that caught GOP congressional leaders by surprise - especially when the president said a vote would come before November and Speaker Paul Ryan was working on it.

'We are looking at putting in a very major tax cut for middle income people. And if we do that it would be some time I would say just prior to November,' Trump said in Nevada on Saturday.

He noted the speaker and Rep. Kevin Brady, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, are working on a plan.

'Kevin Brady is working on it. Paul Ryan is working. We’re all working now,' he said.

But questions arose immediately as Congress is not in session to vote on anything until mid-November and lawmakers' offices referred reporters to the White House for comment on the issue.

Despite the shock and awe, Trump is serious about pushing forward on the issue, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Monday.

'The president is serious about getting middle class tax cuts done. He's delivered on everything single thing he's set out to do. He's had a historic first two years and we're going to keep doing that,' she said.

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Trump often touts his first round of tax cuts, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as a major legislative victory.

That law was a tax cut on individuals and corporations.

But it hasn't proven much a selling point in the election as Republicans fight an uphill battle to maintain control of the House.

In the meantime, lawmakers are back home and on the campaign trail.

They won't return to Washington D.C. until after voters decide on whether or not to keep Trump's Republican Party in power on Capitol Hill.

A packed agenda, however, awaits Congress when it returns later this fall - government funding runs out on December 7 and that spending package could include funding for the president's controversial border wall.

Partisan battles will likely entail if Trump pushes ahead on the issue, particularly if Democrats win control of the House in the election and Republicans try to ram legislation through before they lose power at the end of the year.

No Democrat voted for Trump's first tax plan and Republicans may balk at the cost of such a package.

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Trump touts new round of tax cuts ahead of election, but no vote in Congress until after midterms